Police: Teacher had kids hitting 6-year-old 'bully'

Updated 11:04 pm, Thursday, June 14, 2012

A police investigation of a Judson Independent School District kindergarten teacher who instructed her students to hit a classroom “bully” was submitted to the Bexar County District Attorney's office this week.

The second teacher took Aiden into her kindergarten classroom and told her students to hit him in order to “teach him why bullying is bad,” instructing them to “Hit him!” and “Hit him harder,” the report states.

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“He had friends in that class and some of his friends didn't want to hit him but the other teacher told them to,” Aiden's mom, Amy Neely, said Thursday.

Neely said Aiden told her he had been acting up in line before being sent to the classroom where he was told to sit on a chair while students filed up to slap him. Aiden recalled being hit twice by all 24 members of the class, she said.

Neely said it was the first time she had ever heard of any discipline issues involving her son, noting that his teacher never called home or sent her son to the principal's office.

The police report paints a somewhat different picture, saying “it was not until the sixth or seventh child hit (Aiden) high up on the back and harder than the others had hit,” that the first teacher intervened and stopped it. She reported the incident two weeks later and on May 18 the district put both teachers on paid administrative leave and began to investigate.

Many of the students involved said they were too afraid not to hit Aiden, according to the police report.

The district has not identified either teacher. Neither has been charged. The teacher who watched the incident and waited to report it was “reprimanded and re-educated” and will return to her campus, said Judson spokesman Steve Linscomb.

He said the one who orchestrated the hitting “will not be asked to come back to the district in any capacity,” but Neely said she worries that she will find another teaching job and wants to see charges filed in the case.

“I don't want this teacher to be teaching anymore,” Neely said. “She doesn't need to be around any children.”